Cyberchef Api Mcp Server

Name: Cyberchef Api Mcp Server
Author: slouchd

by slouchd

CyberChef API MCP Server ✨🧑‍🍳

39 5 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Maintained

Last commit 55d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

5 tools · ~263 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "CyberChef API MCP Server": {
      "env": {
        "CYBERCHEF_API_URL": "your-cyberchef-api-url"
      },
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--with",
        "mcp[cli]",
        "--directory",
        "cyberchef-api-mcp-server/cyberchef_api_mcp_server/",
        "mcp",
        "run",
        "server.py"
      ],
      "command": "uv"
    }
  }
}

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What Cyberchef Api Mcp Server does

This model context protocol (MCP) server interfaces with the CyberChef Server API. Allowing you to use any LLM/MCP client of your choosing to utilise the tools and resources within CyberChef.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cyberchef Api Mcp Server safe to use?: Cyberchef Api Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Cyberchef Api Mcp Server?: Cyberchef Api Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Cyberchef Api Mcp Server do?: Cyberchef Api Mcp Server provides 5 tools: get_cyberchef_operations_categories, get_cyberchef_operation_by_category, bake_recipe, batch_bake_recipe, perform_magic_operation. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Cyberchef Api Mcp Server?: Cyberchef Api Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Cyberchef Api Mcp Server actively maintained?: Cyberchef Api Mcp Server is recently maintained — last commit was 55 days ago. It has 39 GitHub stars.

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{ "mcpServers": { "CyberChef API MCP Server": { "env": { "CYBERCHEF_API_URL": "your-cyberchef-api-url" }, "args": [ "run", "--with", "mcp[cli]", "--directory", "cyberchef-api-mcp-server/cyberchef_api_mcp_server/", "mcp", "run", "server.py" ], "command": "uv" } } }

🧰 Available Tools and Resources

get_cyberchef_operations_categories: resource - gets updated Cyber Chef categories for additional context / selection of the correct operations

get_cyberchef_operation_by_category: resource - gets list of Cyber Chef operations for a selected category

bake_recipe: tool - bake (execute) a recipe (a list of operations) in order to derive an outcome from the input data

batch_bake_recipe: tool - bake (execute) a recipe (a list of operations) in order to derive an outcome from a batch of input data

perform_magic_operation: tool - perform CyberChef's magic operation which is designed to automatically detect how your data is encoded and which operations can be used to decode it

📚 Client Configuration

The following commands will generate a client configuration file, the location will depend on your operating system

uv add "mcp[cli]" mcp install server.py --name "CyberChef API MCP Server"

[!TIP] After running the above command you can then tweak the client configuration to include the environment variable for the CyberChef API URL

{ "mcpServers": { "CyberChef API MCP Server": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "run", "--with", "mcp[cli]", "--directory", "cyberchef-api-mcp-server/cyberchef_api_mcp_server/", "mcp", "run", "server.py" ], "env": { "CYBERCHEF_API_URL": "your-cyberchef-api-url" } } } }

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cyberchef Api Mcp Server safe to use?

Cyberchef Api Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Cyberchef Api Mcp Server?

Cyberchef Api Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Cyberchef Api Mcp Server do?

Cyberchef Api Mcp Server provides 5 tools: get_cyberchef_operations_categories, get_cyberchef_operation_by_category, bake_recipe, batch_bake_recipe, perform_magic_operation. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Cyberchef Api Mcp Server?

Cyberchef Api Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Cyberchef Api Mcp Server actively maintained?

Cyberchef Api Mcp Server is recently maintained — last commit was 55 days ago. It has 39 GitHub stars.